ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Gang Chen is Senior Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore. He is the single author of The Politics of Disaster Management in China: Institutions, Interest Groups, and Social Participation, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. His research papers have appeared in internationally-refereed journals such as Asia Pacific Business Review, The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, The International Spectator, The Polar Journal, China: An International Journal, The Chinese Journal of International Politics, and The Journal of East Asian Affairs.

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